tnt-hunter
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- Fisher CZ-21, Minelab Equinix 800, ,Garret AT Pro,
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- All Treasure Hunting
DAY 1
Went to the civil war bullet school and extended a grid. The area has been walked over many times cherry picking and cleaning up as I went from place to place. So there were not a lot of targets of any kind. But most of what was there were pop tab mid tones including most of the zinc Lincoln’s that were eaten up by the acid soil and a silver pendant. I covered a lot of ground because of the low target count (less time in recovering things).
In 5 hours I dug 47 coins with a face value of $2.97, part of a skeleton key, a silver pendant, part of a flattened silver plated spoon bowl, a valve stem cover, some can slaw, aluminum fence tie wire and the ever present can tabs.
The pendant is a little beat up. It is a spinner missing a stone and is marked BOMA 925. My wife likes it and wants me to get it fixed up for her. It is a different kind of pendant.
DAY 2
Went back to the closest park and continued around the ball fields and around one of the fishing ponds. In 3.5 hours I found 45 coins with a face value of $4.89, a broken flashlight (Timex Ironman advertisement), a sinker, a cheapie bead, a knob off a fishing reel, some fishing gear, a piece of a toy car, some pop tabs and some pieces of foil. Not a great hunt, but the gas money was good.
DAY 3
Back to the scout camp for this week. I swung the CZ21 for 6.5 hours and found 156 coins with a face value of $12.67, 148 camp tent pegs (including a “big Bertha “), a horseshoe from the old farm, a really rusted up old pocket knife, a mess kit wing nut, an aluminum screw (probably from a mess kit), a bunch of sinkers, a few tabs and melted aluminum from the campfires.
Must of the pegs were on top of the ground hidden by leaves so recovery was quick and easy. Don’t you just love the zinc Lincolns? Normal acid soil just eats them up. Our children and grandchildren who metal detect in the future will probably not be finding many pennies 30 years from now. They will all have dissolved in the acid soil. Worst decision the mint ever made.
DAY 4
Back to the civil war bullet school since they are closed for the spring break. I spent 5 hours swingin the CZ21 and found 50 coins with a face value of $3.00, a gas valve, a pair of meal chits, a 1948 D wheatie, a piece of stainless chain, a strap buckle, a compact, a hammer and an assortment of the usual junk.
This gas valve is the nicest I have ever found, a real beauty. Gas lighting was introduced in the early 1800s and being used extensively by 1880. By 1925 around half of the homes in the US were using electric lights so this nice little guy probably comes from somewhere between 1880 and 1925. It could be earlier or later, no way to tell for sure.
The compact is VALAZE by Helena Rubinstein from about 1915-1930. According to several people trying to sell one it is rare, but you can’t be sure using that as a guide.
The real prize of the day was the pair of meal chits. They say MEAL on one side and B & O TIE PLANT on the other. One has 35 above the word MEAL and the other is blank there. A railroad tie treatment plant was opened by the B & O Railroad in Green Spring West Virginia in 1911 about 16 miles from where the chits were found. Finding information on these has been hard. I have sent a message to the B & O Railroad Museum In Baltimore hoping for more information. They are the first ones I have ever found or seen anywhere. I love the railroad memorabilia. Like everything else they will go to the school for display if they want them. With luck I may get to keep one.
EYEBALL AND COINSTAR
The coinstars have been empty lately, but I did find a dime and 2 pennies at the mall, 2 pennies on an outdoor walk in the park, 2 pennies and a dime from our walk on Main Street and 2 pennies in the grocery store so still finding, just nothing great,
Still out there swingin and diggin. The gas money is adding up and some interesting stuff to add to the fun. As always, good exercise in the outdoor to keep this old guy in good shape for cutting and splitting firewood. Thanks for looking, stay safe, good luck and may your coil lead you to good things.
Images of the junk from the school DAY 4. (Hammer in the upper left is a keeper the rest get recycled.)
Went to the civil war bullet school and extended a grid. The area has been walked over many times cherry picking and cleaning up as I went from place to place. So there were not a lot of targets of any kind. But most of what was there were pop tab mid tones including most of the zinc Lincoln’s that were eaten up by the acid soil and a silver pendant. I covered a lot of ground because of the low target count (less time in recovering things).
In 5 hours I dug 47 coins with a face value of $2.97, part of a skeleton key, a silver pendant, part of a flattened silver plated spoon bowl, a valve stem cover, some can slaw, aluminum fence tie wire and the ever present can tabs.
The pendant is a little beat up. It is a spinner missing a stone and is marked BOMA 925. My wife likes it and wants me to get it fixed up for her. It is a different kind of pendant.
DAY 2
Went back to the closest park and continued around the ball fields and around one of the fishing ponds. In 3.5 hours I found 45 coins with a face value of $4.89, a broken flashlight (Timex Ironman advertisement), a sinker, a cheapie bead, a knob off a fishing reel, some fishing gear, a piece of a toy car, some pop tabs and some pieces of foil. Not a great hunt, but the gas money was good.
DAY 3
Back to the scout camp for this week. I swung the CZ21 for 6.5 hours and found 156 coins with a face value of $12.67, 148 camp tent pegs (including a “big Bertha “), a horseshoe from the old farm, a really rusted up old pocket knife, a mess kit wing nut, an aluminum screw (probably from a mess kit), a bunch of sinkers, a few tabs and melted aluminum from the campfires.
Must of the pegs were on top of the ground hidden by leaves so recovery was quick and easy. Don’t you just love the zinc Lincolns? Normal acid soil just eats them up. Our children and grandchildren who metal detect in the future will probably not be finding many pennies 30 years from now. They will all have dissolved in the acid soil. Worst decision the mint ever made.
DAY 4
Back to the civil war bullet school since they are closed for the spring break. I spent 5 hours swingin the CZ21 and found 50 coins with a face value of $3.00, a gas valve, a pair of meal chits, a 1948 D wheatie, a piece of stainless chain, a strap buckle, a compact, a hammer and an assortment of the usual junk.
This gas valve is the nicest I have ever found, a real beauty. Gas lighting was introduced in the early 1800s and being used extensively by 1880. By 1925 around half of the homes in the US were using electric lights so this nice little guy probably comes from somewhere between 1880 and 1925. It could be earlier or later, no way to tell for sure.
The compact is VALAZE by Helena Rubinstein from about 1915-1930. According to several people trying to sell one it is rare, but you can’t be sure using that as a guide.
The real prize of the day was the pair of meal chits. They say MEAL on one side and B & O TIE PLANT on the other. One has 35 above the word MEAL and the other is blank there. A railroad tie treatment plant was opened by the B & O Railroad in Green Spring West Virginia in 1911 about 16 miles from where the chits were found. Finding information on these has been hard. I have sent a message to the B & O Railroad Museum In Baltimore hoping for more information. They are the first ones I have ever found or seen anywhere. I love the railroad memorabilia. Like everything else they will go to the school for display if they want them. With luck I may get to keep one.
EYEBALL AND COINSTAR
The coinstars have been empty lately, but I did find a dime and 2 pennies at the mall, 2 pennies on an outdoor walk in the park, 2 pennies and a dime from our walk on Main Street and 2 pennies in the grocery store so still finding, just nothing great,
Still out there swingin and diggin. The gas money is adding up and some interesting stuff to add to the fun. As always, good exercise in the outdoor to keep this old guy in good shape for cutting and splitting firewood. Thanks for looking, stay safe, good luck and may your coil lead you to good things.
Images of the junk from the school DAY 4. (Hammer in the upper left is a keeper the rest get recycled.)
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